From: Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com>
To: Oleh Krehel <ohwoeowho@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Merge branch 'maint'
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2015 13:30:25 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y4gfpkjy.fsf@kyleam.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87twr37il4.fsf@gmail.com> (Oleh Krehel's message of "Wed, 09 Sep 2015 16:50:15 +0200")
Hello,
Oleh Krehel <ohwoeowho@gmail.com> writes:
> Hi all,
>
> Was the issue of abundant "Merge branch 'maint'" commit messages
> discussed before? I couldn't find a reference...
>
> It's not a big deal, really, but I personally prefer to have linear
> history with commits that actually do stuff. And it should be easy to
> switch to this style: just use the "rebase" instead of the "merge"
> command.
>
> Anyway, it's a small thing, and if Nicolas or Bastien strongly like the
> merge method I won't bring it up again. But if they don't care either
> way, I think it's better to start rebasing.
While I'm all for rebasing unpushed commits, short-lived feature
branches, and throw-away integration branches, your suggestion would
frequently rewrite the history of a long-lived public branch.
--
Kyle
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-09 17:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-09 14:50 Merge branch 'maint' Oleh Krehel
2015-09-09 17:30 ` Kyle Meyer [this message]
2015-09-10 10:48 ` Oleh Krehel
2015-09-10 15:05 ` Robert Klein
2015-09-10 22:26 ` Kyle Meyer
2015-09-11 11:59 ` Oleh Krehel
2015-09-11 12:58 ` Josiah Schwab
2015-09-11 14:32 ` Oleh Krehel
2015-09-11 15:25 ` Stefan Nobis
2015-09-11 16:15 ` Oleh Krehel
2015-09-11 13:40 ` Achim Gratz
2015-09-11 15:24 ` Oleh Krehel
2015-09-15 12:16 ` Nicolas Richard
2015-09-11 13:08 ` Suvayu Ali
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